Injunctions given by the reverend father in christ john by God's providence, Bishop of Sarisburie, aswell to the Clergy, as to the churchwardens and inquirers of every several Parish, aswell of his peculiar as general jurisdiction within and of the Diocese of Sarum to be observed and kept of every of them in their offices and callings, as to them shall appertain, for the advancement of god's honour, thincrease of virtue, and good order to be continued within his said Diocese, and the same to be inquired of and put in use by all the Archdeacon's, Commissaries, and other officers excercising Ecclesiastical jurisdiction under the said Bishop, according to the limits of their several offices and jurisdictions, in their Synods, visitations, inquiries, and Courts.  
❧ Imprinted at London, by Henry Denham for Richard jackson, and are to be sold in Gutter Lane at the sign of the red Lion.  
Anno. 1569.  
February. 22.   

Injunctions given by the reverend father in Christ john, by God's providence, Bishop of Sarisburie. etc.  

❧ For the Clergy.  
INPRIMIS, you must travel diligently and painfully to set forth God's true religion, and adorn the same with example of godly life, being circumspect that you offend no man, either by light behaviour, or by light apparel.  
2 Item, upon every Sunday and holiday, ye shall in your Church at convenient hours reverently and distinctly say or sing the Common prayer appointed by the laws of this Realm, both in the fore noon and after noon, so turning and placing yourselves, as the people may best hear the same, and upon every Wednesday and friday (not being holiday) ye shall say the Litany and other Prayers appointed for the day, and shall also at all times requisite and convenient, duly and reverently minister the two holy Sacraments according to such order as is set forth in the book of Common prayer, and administration of the Sacraments. etc.  
3 Item, ye shall every Sunday, and every holy day openly in the Church, hear and instruct the children and servants of both sexes within your parish, at the least so many of them at once by course as the time will serve, and as ye may well hear and instruct for an hour at the least before Evening prayer, in the ten commandments, the Articles of the belief, and the lords prayer, and diligently examine and teach them the catechism, set forth in the book of common prayer.  
4 Item, to the intent this thing may be more effectually executed, ye shall take the names of all the children and servants of both sexes in your parish that be above six years of age, and under twenty, which can not say the Catechisine, and shall call by course certain of them by name, every Sunday and every holy day to come to the Catechism, whereby you may easily note and observe, what parents or masters be negligent in sending their children and servants to be instructed, and take occasion thereof both privately and openly to exhort them to send their youth as they are appointed.  
5 Item, you shall not admit to the receiving of the holy Communion any of your Parish, which be openly known to live in any notorious sin without repentance, unless the same person do first openly reconcile him or herself again to the satisfaction of the congregation, nor any malicious person that is notoriously out of charity, without private reconciliation first made to the party against whom the malice shall be conceived and borne.  
6 Item, you shall not admit to the holy Communion any of your parish, men, or women, being above twenty years of age, that can not say by heart the ten commandments, the Articles of the faith, and the lords prayer, nor any being above twelve years, and under twenty years of age, that can not say by heart the Catechism that is set forth in the book of common prayer.  
7 Item, for that purpose ye shall before Easter and all other times of the year when the holy Communion is to be by you ministered, give warning before unto your parishioners to come unto you, either in the after noon of some Sunday or holy day, or the day before they purpose to receive, or at some other times before, as necessity shall cause you to appoint, if there be any multitude, or in the morning at the furthest, before they shall receive, so that it be afore the beginning of Morning prayer, so many of them as intend to receive, and not only to signify unto you their names, to th'intent ye may keep a register or note of all such persons as from time to time shall communicate, but also to be by you examined, whether they can say by heart the ten commandments, the articles of the faith, the lords prayer, and the Catechism, according as after the diversity of their ages is above required, and such of them as either can not or will not recite the same by heart unto you, ye shall repel and put back from the holy Communion, until they shall be able and willing to learn, and by heart recite the same unto you. For your better assistance wherein, ye shall call upon and require the Churchwardens and sworn men of your parish to be present, one of them at the least, at every such examination to th'intent they may help to put this good order in practice, and take a note of such wilful and negligent persons, as shall be found faulty in this behalf, & so present the same to the Ordinary.  
8 Item, ye shall not admit to answer as Godfathers or Godmothers at the christening of any child, any person or persons, except he, she, and they have before received the holy Communion, and can say by heart the articles of the christian faith, and will recite the same before the Minister, if he, she, or they be thereunto required.  
9 Item, ye shall every Sunday when there is no sermon in your Church, distinctly and plainly read one of the Homilies set forth by the Queen's majesties authority or one part thereof at the least, in such sort as the same is appointed to be read.  
10 Item, ye shall not take upon you to expound any scripture or matter of doctrine by way of exhortation or otherwise, in your own Church or other where, unless ye be admitted so to do, by the Ordinary, or be licensed to preach.  
11 Item, you shall read openly in your Church in time of divine service, twice every year upon some of the Sundays within one month next after the feasts of Easter and Saint Michael tharchangel, plainly without addition or change: A declaration of certain principal articles of religion, set forth by both the Archbishops and the rest of the Bishops of this realm, for the unity of doctrine.  
12 Item, you shall preach, or by such as are lawfully licenced, shall cause to be preached in the Churches where ye are Persons or vicars, one sermon every quarter of the year at the least.  
13 Item, none of you shall serve. ij. cures at one time without special licence under your ordinaries seal.  
14 Item, no Curate shall serve any cure within this Diocese, without special licence in writing under the Ordinaries seal.  
15 Item, for the putting of the churchwardens and sworn men better in remembrance of their duty, in observing and noting all such as do offend in not coming to divine service, ye shall openly every sunday after ye have read the second lesson at Morning and Evening prayer, monish and warn the Churchwardens and sworn men of your parish, to look to their charge in this behalf, and to observe who contrary to the law do that day offend, either in absenting themselves negligently or wilfully from their parish Church or Chappel, or unreverently use themselves in the time of divine service and so note the same, to the intent they may either present such offenders to the Ordinary, when they shall be required thereunto, or levy and take by way of distress to the use of the poor, such forfeitures as are appointed by a statute made in that behalf.  
16 Item, ye shall from time to time diligently call upon and exhort your Parishioners to confer and give towards the relief of the poor as they may well spare, and specially when ye visit them that be sick, and make their testaments, and for your own parts also shall charitably relieve the poor to your ability.  
17 Item, ye shall daily read at the least one chapter of the old testament, and another of the new, with good advisement, and such of you as be under the degree of a Master of Art, shall provide and have of your own, according to the Queen's majesties Injunctions at the least the new testament, both in Latin and English conferring the one with the other, every day one Chapter thereof at the least, so that upon the examination of the Archdeacon, Commissary or their officers, in synods and visitations, it may appear how ye profit in the study of holy Scripture.  
18 Finally, any of you shall not keep any suspected woman in your house, or be an incontinent liver, given to drunkenness or idleness, or be a haunter of Taverns, Alehouses, or suspected places, or a hunter, hawker, dicer, carder, tabler, swearer, or otherwise give any evil example of life, but contrariwise at all times when ye shall have leisure, ye shall hear or read somewhat of holy scripture, or shall occupy yourselves with some other honest study or exercise, and oftentimes give yourselves to earnest prayer. And shall always do the things which appertain to honesty, and move your Parishioners to quiet and concord, helping to reconcile them which shall happen to be at variance at any time, and by all means ye can, endeavour to profit the common wealth, having always in mind that ye ought to excel all other in purity of life, and should be examples to the people to live well & christianly, not giving any way just cause of offence.   

¶ For the Churchwardens and inquirers, commonly called thee sworn men of every Parish.  
INprimis, that you the Church wardens and inquirers in every Parish within the Diocese of Sarum shall upon your oaths duly and truly certify and present in writing unto the Ordinary, archdeacon of the place, or Commissary, or to other officers appointed in this behalf, once or oftener in every year as hereafter is appointed, at such certain days and places as shall be signified unto you from time to time, all such matters as hereafter ensue. That is to say.  
1 First, ye shall certify and present once in every quarter of a year, whether your persons, Vicars, and Curates, do diligently, obediently, and duly observe and keep all the said Injunctions given unto them, as is above mentioned, so far forth as the same do any manner of way concern them or any of them, and if they do not, then which and how many of the said Injunctions do they not keep, and in what points do they violate and break the same.  
2 Item, whether the Queen's majesties Injunctions be quarterly read by your Persons, vicars, or Curates.  
3 Item, to certify and present quarterly whether there be any among you, that is a hinderer of true religion, or a favourer of the Romish power, or that stubbornly refuseth to conform himself to unity and godly religion, set forth by common authority, or any that wilfully and obstinately defend or maintain any heresies, or false doctrine, contrary to the holy scriptures, and what his or their names are.  
4 Item, to present quarterly, whether any parish Clark or any other person not being ordered at the lest for a Deacon, do presume to solemnize matrimony or minister the sacrament of baptism, or deliver to the communicants the lords cup at the celebration of the holy communion, and what he or they be, that so do. And whether any person not being a Minister, Deacon, or at the least tolerated by the Ordinary in writing, do attempt to say the common prayer, and other divine service openly in the Church, and what he is that so doth.  
5 Item, to certify quarterly, whether your Curate presume to serve in your Parish Church without licence from the Ordinary in writing, and under seal, or whether any serve two cures without licence.  
6 Item, to certify yearly at the visitation, whether your Parish have a Bible of their own, the book of common prayer, a Psalter, the two books of Homilies, the book called the Paraphrases of Erasmus, and other books requisite, and a fair and comely Communion cup of silver with a cover of silver for the same, which cover may serve for the ministration of the lords bread.  
7 Item, to certify likewise, whether your Choir be comely and orderly kept, whether ye have a fair and comely Communion table standing upon a frame with a fair linen cloth to lay upon the same, and some carpet or covering of silk, Buckram, or such like for the clean keeping thereof, and a decent large Surples with sleeves for the Minister, to be used of him in all his ministration within the Church, and also a chest or box for the almose of the poor.  
8 Item, to certify quarterly, whether your register book of christenings, marriages and burials, be duly kept, and the same christenings, marriages, and burials as they happen from time to time, be entered by your Minister into the same book, in the presence of you the Churchwardens or one of you.  
9 Item, to certify quarterly, whether when any christian body is in passing, the bell be tolled, & the Minister called to comfort the sick person, and after the time of his or her passing, there be any more ringing but one short peal before the burial, and another short peal after the burial. And whether on all Saint's day after Evening prayer there be any ringing in your Church, or other superstitious ceremonies used, tending to the maintenance of the popish purgatory, or of praying for the dead, and who they be that use or do the same. And whether there be any ringing or tolling of Bells on Sundays or holy days between Morning prayer and the Litany, or in any time of divine service, or reading of the homilies or preaching, except one bell, in convenient time to be rung or tolled before the sermon. And who they be that so do ring, or toll the bells otherwise.  
10 Item, to present yearly at the visitation, whether there be any in your parish, man or woman, being of convenient age, that hath not received the holy communion thrice at the least in every year, and namely at Easter or thereabout for once, and what their names are. And whether yearly before Easter at such convenient times (and namely on Sundays in Lent at after noon) as the Person, vicar, or Curate shall appoint and require his parishioners to recite unto him the Catechism, or at the least the lords prayer, the Articles of the christian belief, & the ten commandments by heart in English, if any wilfully & stubbornly refuse to recite the same, whether you the Churchwardens & sworn men, or some of you, do assist & aid the minister therein.  
11 Item, to present quarterly, whether such schoolmasters as teach in your parish, be of a sincere and sound religion, and be diligent in teaching and bringing up of your youth godly, and whether also they be allowed by the Ordinary to teach.  
12 Item, to certify and present quarterly, whether all fathers, mothers, and masters of your Parish cause their children and servants both mankind and womankind, being above six years of age, and under twenty years, which have not learned the catechism, or at the least such & so many of them as your minister shall appoint, diligently to come to the church every sunday & every holiday at the time appointed, and there obediently to hear, learn, & be ordered by your Minister, until such time as they have learned all the said catechism by heart, & what be the names of those that do not cause their children and servants so to come to the church to be instructed & examined.  
13 Item, to certify and present quarterly, whether the lay people of your Parish especially householders having no lawful excuse to be absent, do faithfully and diligently endeavour themselves to resort to their parish church or Chapel on the holy days, & chief on the Sundays, to Morning and Evening prayer, and upon reasonable let thereof, to some other usual place where common prayer is used, & then, & there abide orderly & soberly, during all the time of common prayer, Homilies, preachings, & other service of God there used, and what be the names of those that negligently or wilfully absent themselves, or come very late to the Church upon the Sundays and holy days, but especially upon the Sundays.  
14 Item, to certify & present quarterly the names of such of your parishioners as walk, talk, or otherwise unreverently behave themselves in the church, or use any gaming abroad, or in any house, or sit in the streets or churchyard, or in any Tavern or Alehouse, upon the Sunday or other holy day in the time of common prayer, sermon, or reading of any of the Homilies.  
15 Item, to certify and present quarterly, whether you the Churchwardens and sworn men do levy and gather of every person that wilfully or negligently absenteth him or herself from their Parish church, or unreverently behaveth him or herself in the church in time of divine service upon the Sundays and other holy days, the forfeiture of. xii. d. for every such offence, according to a statute made in the first year of the Queen's majesties reign that now is, and have put the same forfeitures to the use of the poor of the parish, and what particular sums of money are quarterly forfeited that way, and by whom, and how much thereof is levied and delivered to the Collectors of the poor. And if any such forfeitures be not levied in case of such offences, by whose default it happeneth, that the same are not levied, and what be the names of such as offend that way, and do not pay the said forfeiture.  
16 Item, to certify and present quarterly, whether there be any Innekepers, alehousekepers, Uictuallers, or tipplers, within your parish, that admit or suffer any persou or persons in their houses, to eat & drink, or play at cards, tables, or other games in time of common prayer, preaching or reading of Homilies on the sundays or holy days, and whether there be any shops open on sundays or holy days, or any Butchers or others, that use to sell meat or other things upon the sundays or holy days in like time of common prayer, preaching, or reading of the Homilies, & what be the names of the persons that so offend. And whether in any Fairs or common Markets falling upon the sunday, there be any showing of any wares before Morning prayer be done.  
17 Item, to certify and to present likewise, whether you have Collectors for the poor of your Parish, whether they do their duty in gathering weekly, and distributing the alms of the poor, according to a statute made in the fift year of the Queen's majesties reign, and make a just account thereof quarterly.  
18 Item, to certify and present likewise all such persons as be of ability and do obstinately or frowardly refuse to give reasonably towards the relief of the poor, or do wilfully discourage others from so charitable a deed, and what be their names.  
19 Item, to certify & present at the least quarterly all swearers and blasphemers of God's name, all drunkards, adulterers, fornicators, ribalds, incestuous persons, bawds or receivers of such incontinent persons, or of strange women with child, whose husbands are unknown, or any persons that are vehemently suspected of such faults, or that be not of good name and fame, touching such crimes and faults, and all sowers of discord between neighbour and neighbour within your Parish.  
20 Item, to certify likewise, whether your church and chancel be sufficiently repaired, and cleanly kept, and the mansion house of your Person or vicar with buildings thereunto belonging likewise well repaired, and your Churchyard well fenced, and cleanly kept, and if any of the same be ruinous, & in decay, through whose default it is so. Whether the Churchwardens of the last year were enjoined to have repaired any part of the Church, or to have fenced the Churchyard, & did neglect to do the same.  
21 Item, to certify whether the Churchwardens of the last year have given to the Parish a just account of the church goods that were committed to their charge, & what church goods they have sold, and to whome● and whether to the profit of the church or no? And whether any person suppress the last will of the dead, and perform not Legacies bequeathed to the church, or to Orphans, poor maids marriages, high ways, schools, or to any other godly use.  
22 Item, to certify & present, whether the churchwardens and sworn men of the last year have of any private corrupt affection concealed any crime, or other disorder in their time done in your parish, and have not presented the same to the Archdeacon, or Commissary, or other officers, having been charged and enjoined upon their oaths to present the same, and what crime or disorder the same was. And whether they or any of them at any such time or times as they should have been at divine service in the church upon the sundays and holidays, and should there have observed such Persons as then were absent from the Church, have themselves been absent from the church, & have sit in the tavern or alehouse, or have been idle else where, or at the bowls, cards, tables, or other gaming, in time of divine service without regard of their office or duty in that behalf.  
23 Item, to certify and present once in the year, whether for the retaining of the perambulation of the circuit of your Parish in the Rogation days, commonly called the Gang week, your Minister, and your Clerk without wearing any surplice upon them, and you the Churchwardens and sworn men, with certain others of the substantial men of your Parish, do yearly walk the accustomed bounds of your Parish, with giving of thanks, and using of such order of prayers and Homilies, as be appointed by the Queen's Maiest●●s authority in that behalf, without carrying of banners, staying at crosses, or using any other superstitious ceremonies in any of your perambulations.  
24 Item, to present likewise, whether there have been any Lords of misrule, or disguised persons in Christmas, or dancers, minstrels, or May gamers, at any other time, that have unreverently come into your Church, and there played vuseemely parts, with scoffs, ie●ts, and ribaldry talk, or dancing, and namely in time of Common prayer, and what their names be, and the names also of such others as came with them to maintain such disorder.  
25 Item, to present quarterly, whether ye know any to be married within the degrees of affinity or consanguinity prohibited by the laws of God, or any that being divorced and separated for the same, do yet notwithstanding cohabit and keep company still together, or whether any being married without those degrees have unlawfully forsaken their wives, or Husbands, or married others. For the more certain knowledge of which degrees, you shall procure, that the Table touching the degrees of Matrimony ●●st set forth by the most Reverend father in God Matthew Archbishop of canterbury, be fastened in some convenient place in your Church.   
God save the Queen.